Friday, April 22, 2011

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Original Big Boy restaurant

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Spent the week in Glendale and ended it at Castaway which is in the mountains overlooking burbank and LA. I am learning so much, like drinking from the firehose.
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Monday, April 18, 2011

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Sunday, April 17, 2011

New project = big change

After 9 years working for WDPR-IT at Disney Cruise Line I have been asked to Manage the Technology Infrastructure for the Disneyland Shanghai, China resort. Today I am flying to Glendale, California where the main Imagineering headquarters are located. Traveling with my VP and another Manager to get our roles and responsibilities clearly defined. This is my second United flight ever (see previous bad experience in blog) and upon arriving at airport I find out flight 277 is delayed 90 minutes. We were then told there was no food put on this plane prior to arriving so they made an announcement to go to the snack bar in the airport.  I expect to be doing a lot of these West Coast trips so I hope I can get on Delta in the future to keep enhancing my frequent miles.

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Saturday, April 16, 2011

DeLeon springs ride

This will be in history books. 6 riders tackling 62 miles on a route that Google chose. We started out with a new chickfila employee messing our order up. Then a helmet rolled off the back of a motorcycle on I-4 at hwy speed. Said helmet went under our Honda minivan and lodge itself under the engine. The noise, the chaos inside the car and traffic was crazy. I pulled over and we could not dislodge it. I backed over a drainage culvert with no luck so I backed down I-4 until I could back up onto a curb which freed it just before it burst into flames. The burning smell from it sitting on tailpipe was pretty strong. Then we went up to the trailhead and started our adventure a little late. 3 flats later and multiple missed turns we made it to the DeLeon spring as the winds picked up. We ran into a 12k miles a year bicyclist that gave us a short tour of Volusia county getting us back on course. Ultimately Chance and Eddie made it to the cars and reran the route to pick up the remaining spent carcasses the wind defeated. What a day. Total mileages were 56 -79 depending on your energy.

Big training ride today

Kevin Hart has joined the team and he mentioned the Deleon Springs Sugar Mill. So using Google Bicycle and then Map my Ride I put together a 64 mile roundtrip ride.

This will be on roads we have never ridden but it seems from Google street view it should be scenic.

Sunday, April 10, 2011

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Steep Canyon Rangers at Skipper's Smokehouse in Tampa. Great venue, great warm up band and SCR was great. Wrapped up at 12:45 which made for a late night return to O-town